American Realities, Volume I Book

From the First Settlements to the Civil War.

Preface.

1. The Native Americans.
October 11, 1492.

2. The First Euro-Americans.
Norse Settlers in the New World.

3. The English Background.
A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop.

4. The British American.
William Byrd in Two Worlds.

5. Divided Loyalties.
Jonathan Boucher and the Pre-Revolutionary Crisis.

6. The American Revolution.
1776: The Continental Army in the Year of Independence.

7. Testing the Constitution.
The Alien and Sedition Acts.

8. Republican Nationalism.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition.

9. The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy.
The Cherokee Removal.

10. Abolitionists and Antiabolitionists.
William Lloyd Garrison and the Broadcloth Mob.

11. The Texas Revolution.
Lorenzo de Zavala, Patriot.

12. Reform in the Early Republic.
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

13. Manifest Destiny.
Down the Santa Fe Trail with Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847.

14. A Slave's Story.
Adb Rahman Ibrahima's Journey from Slavery to Freedom

15. The Civil War.
Two Soldiers and Their Worlds.